We appreciate the enormous support that our ABestWeb community has experienced over the many years it has served its members and sponsors. We have decided to exit this business and have placed the property up for sale and we are actively entertaining interest.

In the meantime, community members will be able to read but not post to ABestWeb beginning on Jan. 18.

We want to thank you for your numerous contributions and your ongoing support. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Heads up if you use Real Audio. Twice recently, I inadvertanly opened an ad on the Real Audio window while trying to close it. Once it tried to download Gator scumware, which I was able to stop in time. The second time It installed Speed Blaster, which installed a couple of pieces of crap, TotalVelocity Memory Meter and
MS T-Media Display. I was able to remove the Memory Meter using the uninstall but kept getting popups for days. It seemed to be able to reinstall itself and Spybot couldn't remove it.
Found a site that sent me into the registry to manually remove MS T-Media Display files.

Anyway, careful if you use Real Audio. I've switched to using Windows Media and WinAmp, a free program with Netscape as a safe alternative. I tried emailing Real Audio, but could only get through to tech support which didn't see a problem and referred me to an inoperative email address.